Jita Park Speakers Corner

Incidentally, I specifically disclaim any promises to make tomorrow better.

Given who you're addressing, be careful what you ask for.

Yes indeed, but if I can't cope with that problem then I'm going to make a very poor showing...

I have no plans for White knighting as you call it, that was just a demonstration to show that the voting is to easily rigged, getting the bottom candidate out of 20 and getting them on the CSM, with the use of conspiracy theories.

And no I am happy with the proposal that thread put forward for Null and am hoping that is roughly what will happen, well to it and POSs and NPC facilities.

and my axe!

You carry the fate of us all, little one. If this is indeed the will of the Council, then Gondor will see it done.

My thoughts on how NPC corps could be developed and improved are detailed in the hi-sec manifesto thread.

The tl;dr is that NPC corps have a valid place in EVE, because hi-sec is (or should be) about convenience play and not everyone has the time, schedule or inclination to join a player corp. But that doesn't mean that being a member of an NPC corp can't be made more involving.

Basically, I think players should be able to choose which NPC corp they want to belong to, and different NPC corps should have different advantages and different drawbacks and challenges. There should certainly be more complexity - joining a Caldari Megacorp that has a 'Cold War' going on with another megacorp should give you a big standings hit to that other megacorp (or even open warfare with their members - a very small scale version of faction warfare). Joining a government/Navy organisation should involve you in faction warfare. Other corps might vary the cut they take of your earnings. Different NPCs corps might also offer different facilities like easier jump clone access, better refining, limited access LP stores, partial diplomatic immunity for players with very low faction status (eg: you might join a Caldari megacorp with good trading relations with the Minmatar; you'd still be hostile to Gallente Faction navy, but you'd be able to travel into Minmatar space as if your standing to them was +2.0 higher than it actually is). And so on. There are lots of possibilities.

Basically, it should matter which NPC corp you choose. And the NPC corps with the pros/cons that suit a particular playstyle, whether mining, trading, missioning, hauling, whatever, will then tend to accumulate the players who do the relevant professions. This will mean that players in NPC corps will generally be associating with other players who share their interests. This will promote and enable player interaction, and might even help to facilitate those players in forming their own player corps.

If you mean geographically:

Good understanding: Sov 0.0, NPC 0.0, hi-sec
Some understanding: Lo-sec
Limited understanding: W-space

If you mean in terms of gameplay mechanics, then I have limited experience (ie: I have dabbled but not in any serious way), in invention, ship manufacturing, exploration, suicide ganking, espionage, L5 missions.

I have some experience (ie: I do them regularly or I used to do them a lot, but not as my primary focus these days) in trading, cloaky warfare, belt ratting (including faction/officer spawn hunting), small gang PvP, piracy, POS management, corp management, 0.0 mining.

I have lots of experience in: fleet warfare, forum warfare (hey it's a part of EVE), scouting, dying in dictors, anomalies, missioning (both pirate and hisec), helping individual new players (this is a hobby of mine)

That's probably not a complete list but it'll do for now

I am so very happy to see this. I have known Mal (under many names) for about 13 years now and he has always been a well spoken rational individual. It doesn't matter if you are on his side of the argument or not, he has always spoken with unequivocal honesty.

P.S. His ass is legendary.

I could probably reverse engineer production and make an educated guess as to how many datacores Eve uses, but that wouldn't tell us whether the majority from from FW or if they're still from R&D agents. That said, I disagree that it would shift the bottleneck - my gut feeling is there would be no bottleneck. You'd get it looking like minerals did when drone alloys were a thing; some stuff was more valuable than others, but it was all pretty dang cheap.

That wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing in this context though, as it would be an avenue to achieve the "keep moons top down but not too valuable so you can't live entirely on them" goal he stated a couple pages back.


e: And my apologies to Malcanis, I sometimes feel like I'm hijacking your thread.